Just finished adding all my older #accessibility#videos back to https://blindcomputing.org after I started rewriting it using #Hugo about a month ago. We're getting closer and closer to being exactly where we were 2 years ago with my old, custom PHP CMS! Hay, it's been totally worth moving to this new platform though. Next thing on the list is to bring back the Contributors section.

On Twitter I feel like a bot. On Mastodon I feel like a person. It's so astounding how much a big corporation, promoted contents, ads, bad design choices and a desire to try to stand out can hurt, even if subconsciously, a social platform's perception. When you take all that away, and you're left with the core elements you need to virtually socialise, you end up with a platform that's out of sight and out of mind.

If anyone knows, or can find out, what to name the sound icons for orca that go in ~/.local/share/orca/sounds, or knows of an existing sound pack, I want to here from you. I've cloned and looked through the code, and while I could, with some effort, reverse engineer what they should be named, that spans multiple modules and third party packages and it would be much easier to have a working example.

Never come near me if you don't want to end up with 3 displays, or at least 2. I'm the biggest advocator of maximising desktop space and simultaneously improving window management there is. And I can't even see well enough to read what's on them.

Friends at Google/YouTube: This UI for like/dislike counts is a bad design. At a glance, it looks like the count is 400-something likes and 900-something dislikes. That K is technically correct but optically disguises the fact that likes outnumber dislikes 42-1.

@nitox I Love #ff being #FreeFriday! Let's hijack it 😂 My #FridayFossmendation is Miniflux, which integrates with Wallabag and is a fantastic RSS reader. I've been running both for a while and it's by far the most frictionless setup I've had for RSS/link saving! Plus, Miniflux supports the Fever API so it is compatible with most RSS reading apps (at least on iOS, which is what I use)!

May I suggest to people that if somebody replies to you, even if they're telling you something you already knew, or otherwise not actually contributing anything useful, you still like, favourite, up-vote or otherwise express your thanks for that reply. They have no way of knowing what you do, and even if what they're saying doesn't quite line up given the context of the original post, they're still trying to participate in your own conversation.

I come across a Mastodon poll I want to vote in, so I click on it in @tootapp. Turns out, Toot doesn't label the buttons that select choices, so I can't tell what I'm choosing. Okay, copy link, let's do this on the web.

Nope. I don't know whether it's a VoiceOver bug or the site, but @Mastodon doesn't let me select the radio buttons for some reason.

Microsoft and the Linux community don't realize the most important thing about accessibility features: *accessibility must be accessible*. Any and all effort that has to be put in to set up accessibility features is a barrier. This is mostly unavoidable in the current landscape; you need to be able to operate a computer like an abled person to get to accessibility features, no matter what OS you're using. But that's not an excuse to make accessibility even harder to access. OS devs need to step up their fucking game. (fin.)

For those that haven't especially those of you using @tootapp, I recommend creating lists of people who toot about similar interesting things. It's obviously not perfect (people toot about whatever they like), but it's a good way to catch up on a particular topic from only the people you want. In Toot, the lists appear directly in the sidebar, and I'm assuming some other clients give them easy access.